WAR NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 2 November 1915, Page 6

WAR NEWS.

ACCIDENT TO THE KING. HIS MAJESTY STILL WEAK. (Received Monday, 0.55 a.m.) LOXDO.X, Sunday. ()filcial: A bulletin limed !0 o'clock in the morning was issued this afternoon, and states that the King is making slow progress. he pain is diminishing, hut His Majesty is still weak. Mis pulse, and iemperature are normal. | A NAVAL JiATTLK. j (Received Mondav, S.H) a.m.) j COPKNif AGEN, Sunday. | JJncharest telegrams state that Ihe Goebeii, Biv-Jau and Hamidich attacked tlnve Russian battleships and several cruisers ami destroyers. A violent battle took place. The result is not known. j AUSTRIAN'S ( ROSS THE DRTXA j (Received Monday, 11.5 a.m.) I .ROME, Sunday. | It is officially announced that the Austrians have crossed the Drill a neai' Vishegrad, alter desperate j lighting with the Montenegrins, who have retreated to the second line of their defence. The artillery duel : continues. RivlTlSH TROOPS .!UNCTION WITH KKRYTANS. (Received Monday. 8.55 a.m.) PARTS, Sunday. The nriii.Nh troops have junefcionc(| w iih l';«' Servians. A MILLION FOR BULGARIA. (Received Monday. 8.10 a.m.) I,ON i)OX. Sunday. The "Daily Chronicle's" Balkan correspondent states that a million Russians, under General DavinofF, are go inn Inwards Bulgaria. BULG A R TAN DESERTERS. (Received iMondav, 11.5 a.m.) PETROGRAD, Sunday. Bulgarian deserters are petitioning to join the Servian Russian armies, provded they ; ire m) |, fiskcd to Ji.gnt their countrymen. TI Ti: Oil A M I\\o X I*l STRUGGI.E. (Received Monday. 9.55 a.m.) . PARTS, Sunday. A com.niuui(|iie states: The enemy's bombardment in the Champagne* region developed with the greatest violence on a front of five miles, including TTill 19-3, Tahure hill, and ihe G'ahuro village, up to '■a OouHine. It- was followed by an attack carried out by important masses of infantry, the majority of whom were recently on the Russian front. Despite the vigour of the attack, and out* assailants' extreme desperation, ihe enemy suffered a. serious defeat. Our iiro decimated waves of the attack on the whole front, qur assailants only reaching the summit of Taluino hill. Everywhere else, especially in front of the village of Tahure, where the, fighting was particularly obstinate, the Germans were completely repulsed and driven hack to their trenches, leaving a very large number of dead. '

CALM L\ T THE EAST. (Received Monday, R.-10 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. Jieuter reports that there is compnrative calm on the northern front. The German command is working out a new plan, they clearly recognise that Riga is unobtninible for the winter quarters which they promised the troops. Ihe five months' German < anipaign in the Baltic Provinces has only resulted in enormous loss and the exhaustion of tho troops. Hie Germans, in a communique, admit the withdrawal from the Misso eight miles from Rigs It is reported that tho enomv :;x.i evacuating Kovel, where they hud acqunmlated vast quantities of amniunition and supplies. GERMAN SLACKENING ON HK.A FRONT. (Received Monday, 11.0 a.m.) PETROGB-AD, Sunday. Thv German slackening on ti;<> Riga front is believed to lie due to submarines in the Baltic: preventing the transport of shells.

DARDANELLES WOUNDED. (Received Mondav, 11.5 a.m.) ROME, Sunday. Light thousand British soldiers who were wounded at the Dardanelles will shortly arrive at Palermo (Sicily), where ihe fullest hospital preparations have been made. VON TIRPITZ DISGRACED. (Received .Monday, 12.25 p.m.) AMSTERDAM," Sunday. According to the Catholic •kmvspaper "De Maasbode" (published it Rotterdam), Admiral von Tirpity, has fallen into disgrace with the Kaiser. RUSSIAN WAR LOAN. (Received Mondav. 11.5 a.m.) PETROGRAD, Sunday. The banks at Petrograd and Moscow a'-o talcing up !'(;(),OOd.U!)!) of the coming war loan. NURSE. CAYELL'S DEATH. (Received Monday, 12.25 pjn.) PARTS, Sunday. The Senate carried a resolution regarding the execution of Nn;so. C'uvell to the. effect that she was a martyr to patriotism and eternal justice, and brands the authors with everlasting infamy. The Government has ordered Xurse Cavell's heroism and barbarous execution to be explained to the children of every elementary school. ESPIONAGE IN BELGIUM. (Received Mondav, 12.25 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Sunday. Advices from Berlin show that nine persons were executed for espionage in Belgium, ten sentenced to servitude, including three women. Twenty-five persons were arrested for espionage and dynamite -dots, including four women.